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Osteen's Wife on Trial for Temper Tantrum
ABC News ^ | Aug. 6, 2008 | GINA SUNSERI

Posted on 08/06/2008 12:49:28 PM PDT by Gamecock

Can a crankiness land you in court? The case of Sandra Brown v. Victoria Osteen is the story of a chance encounter on an airplane that turned into a nasty legal battle.

Osteen is the wife of popular self-help author and television minister Joel Osteen, who heads the Lakewood Church, Houston's largest congregation. Brown is a flight attendant for Continental Airlines.

The lawsuit, filed in Harris County Civil Court in Houston, alleges that Victoria Osteen "shoved, grabbed and pulled the flight attendants." The suit goes on to claim that Osteen elbowed Brown, who was the flight manager, while allegedly trying to get into the cockpit of the airplane.

Brown's attorney, Reginald McKamie, contends that Osteen has a dark side that the trial will expose.

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TOPICS: Charismatic Christian; Current Events; Evangelical Christian
KEYWORDS: airlines; lawsuit; osteen; ybpdln
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1 posted on 08/06/2008 12:49:28 PM PDT by Gamecock
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To: DocRock; del4hope; Alex Murphy; Gamecock; Dr. Eckleburg; jude24; Ottofire; fishtank; ...

Your Best Purpose Driven Life Now Ping List Ping


2 posted on 08/06/2008 12:50:45 PM PDT by Gamecock (The question is not, "Am I good enough to be a Christian?" rather "Am I good enough not to be?")
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To: Gamecock

Suspect someone is looking for a payday.


3 posted on 08/06/2008 12:51:24 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (300 Million People Going Bust Over High Gasoline Prices and Hussein Obama Wants to Hug Trees.)
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To: Gamecock

I wish MEchell O would do something like this...


4 posted on 08/06/2008 12:52:41 PM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: Gamecock

Don’t know which of my many prejudices should win out on this one.


5 posted on 08/06/2008 12:53:43 PM PDT by marron
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To: Gamecock
I'm not taking any lectures on religion unless it is via a private session with Melissa Scott.

Osteen gives me the creeps. He is the Reverand Ike what Pat Boone was to Little Richard.

6 posted on 08/06/2008 12:53:50 PM PDT by Clemenza (McCain/Palin; Maverick and the MILF)
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To: Gamecock
FAA fines Victoria Osteen $3,000 (also being sued by a flight attendant claiming assault)
Victoria Osteen and FBI have different views on what occurred aboard airliner
7 posted on 08/06/2008 12:54:41 PM PDT by Gamecock (The question is not, "Am I good enough to be a Christian?" rather "Am I good enough not to be?")
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To: Gamecock
I still shake my head in amazement that this Minister took Christmas off to head to Vail, or whereever.

I mean seriously, Christmas and Easter are kind of "the big show" in his line of work.............

8 posted on 08/06/2008 12:55:10 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (It's the Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy - labeling all whites as racist.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Nah. Only in the Christian church.


9 posted on 08/06/2008 12:56:02 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
Don't blame the flight attendant, she's just doing what Joel teaches, going after her Best Life Now.
10 posted on 08/06/2008 12:56:44 PM PDT by Gamecock (The question is not, "Am I good enough to be a Christian?" rather "Am I good enough not to be?")
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To: AppyPappy

Church of the Feel Good...


11 posted on 08/06/2008 1:01:22 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (It's the Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy - labeling all whites as racist.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
I mean seriously, Christmas and Easter are kind of "the big show" in his line of work.............

Dr. Charles Allen on Christmas morning at First Methodist in Houston .. early 80's. Best opening line I've ever heard to a sermon ...

He started with

As I was saying last year ...

12 posted on 08/06/2008 1:04:35 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Had he not spent Christmas at a ski resort, he would not have been living his "Best Life Now"
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What would his sheep think? < /sarcasm
13 posted on 08/06/2008 1:05:03 PM PDT by raynearhood ("As for you, when wide awake you are asleep, and asleep when you write..." - Jerome)
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To: tx_eggman

Ha - that is classic!


14 posted on 08/06/2008 1:05:45 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (It's the Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy - labeling all whites as racist.)
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To: raynearhood

I’m one of the few who neither bought or read his book.


15 posted on 08/06/2008 1:07:11 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (It's the Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy - labeling all whites as racist.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I haven’t either.


16 posted on 08/06/2008 1:08:52 PM PDT by kalee
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Church of the Feel Good...

My son and his family goes to one of these types of churches in the DFW area. I call it The Touchy Feelgood Social Club and church. I've only heard them talk about the kids sports program, VBS, carnival and the church's pre-school. Never heard them say one word about the tenets of the church itself.

17 posted on 08/06/2008 1:09:36 PM PDT by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: kalee

Me three....heard him in an interview...not much substance there IMHO.


18 posted on 08/06/2008 1:11:44 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Never read it either. I’ve watched him (with pepto-bismol in hand) a few times. Kinda like Barney or a car crash. You don’t want to watch, but it’s such a travesty that you can’t turn away.


19 posted on 08/06/2008 1:12:08 PM PDT by raynearhood ("As for you, when wide awake you are asleep, and asleep when you write..." - Jerome)
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To: ladtx

They are Christian Innoculation Centers. People go there to receive weekly vaccinations so they won’t come down with the real thing.


20 posted on 08/06/2008 1:12:27 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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